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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 837 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MORILLON , a name commonly given by fowlers to the See also:

female or immature male of the See also:GOLDEN-See also:EYE (q.v.), the Clangula glaucion of See also:modern See also:ornithology, under the belief—which still very generally obtains among them, as it once did among naturalists —that they formed a distinct See also:species of See also:duck. The See also:mistake no doubt originated in, and is partly excused by, the facts that the birds called Morillons were often of opposite sexes, and differed greatly from the adult male Golden-Eye, whose full and beautiful plumage is not assumed until the second See also:year. The word is used in See also:French in precisely the same See also:form, but it is in that See also:language applied to the Tufted Duck, Fuligula cristata, and is derived, according to See also:Littre, from more, signifying See also:black. (A.

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